Carmacks Project Updates
Carmacks - Permitting (June, 2010)
Western Copper Appeals the Yukon Water Board’s Decision
Carmacks - Permitting (May, 2010)
Western Copper was notified that the Carmacks Copper Project’s Water Use Licence application has been denied.
Read News Release May 10
Read News Release May 12
Carmacks - Permitting (March, 2010)
Western Copper completes Carmacks Project public hearing
Carmacks - Permitting (February, 2010)
The Yukon Water Board informed Western Copper that the Water Use Licence public hearing for the Carmacks Copper Project will begin on February 15, 2010. The public hearing will take place in Whitehorse.
Read Correspondence from Yukon Water Board PublicHearing.pdf
Carmacks - Permitting (December, 2009)
The Yukon Water Board complets the adequacy review of the Carmacks Copper Project Type A Water Use Licence application and has set an intervention deadline of January 25, 2010.
Carmacks - Permitting (April, 2009)
Western Copper, as required by the Quartz Mining License, provided security representing the estimated reclamation costs for work performed to date on the Carmacks Copper Project.
Carmacks - Permitting (April, 2009)
Western Copper Obtains Quartz Mining License For Carmacks Copper Project
Carmacks - Permitting (December, 2008)
Western Copper submits an updated Quartz Mining Licence application and an updated Water use Licence application.
Carmacks - Permitting (September, 2008)
Yukon Government issues a Decision Document agreeing with the recommendation of YESAB that the Carmacks Copper Project proceed.
Carmacks - Permitting (July, 2008)
YESAB recommends that the Carmacks Copper Project proceeds.
Carmacks - Permitting (May, 2008)
The Carmacks Copper Project has moved to the next stage of the assessment process under the Yukon Environmental and Socio-economic Assessment Act (YESAA).
Carmacks - Permitting (February, 2008)
YESAB reviewed public comments and required further clarification of certain technical issues from Western Copper Corporation.
Carmacks - Permitting (December, 2007)
The Yukon Environmental and Socio-economic Assessment Board (YESAB) issued the draft Screening Report and Recommendation on December 17, 2007. The YESAB recommends that the Carmacks Copper Project proceeds, subject to the terms and conditions of the mitigative factors outlined in the report. The draft report is open for public comment until February 6, 2008.
Carmacks - Resource Update (November, 2007)
An update to the No. 1 Zone mineral resource estimated in the spring 2007 (Feasibility Study, April 2007) was prepared by Wardrop Engineering Inc. of Vancouver, British Columbia. The Technical Report incorporates all the previous data with the data collected from the 2007 drilling campaign. It includes geological and assay results from an additional 64 diamond drill holes in 9,900 m drilled during the 2007 campaign in the No.1, 4 and 7 Zones. This new resource has the potential to increase the mine life of the Carmacks Copper Project.
Read Technical Report
Read News Release
Carmacks - Power (October, 2007)
The Yukon Energy Corporation has commenced construction of an extension of the power grid from Carmacks to Stewart Crossing. The power line would be located approximately 10 km east of the property along the Klondike Highway. Western Copper has had preliminary discussions with Yukon Energy concerning a spur line from the extension to feed the Carmacks Property.
Carmacks - Exploration (October, 2007)
The 2007 drilling program commenced in March and was completed in mid-October. It included 17,000 of diamond drilling in 123 holes. The program further defined zones of mineralization at the No. 1, No. 7 and No. 7A zones, delineated mineralization at the No. 4, No. 12 and No. 13 zones and identified copper-molybdenum mineralization in a new zone, the No. 14 Zone.
Carmacks - Exploration (August, 2007)
Western Copper Corporation discovers a new copper zone at the Carmacks Copper Project.
Carmacks - Feasibility Study (May, 2007)
An updated Feasibility Study was compiled by M3 Engineering & Technology Corporation of Tucson, Arizona with resource estimation by Wardrop Engineering of Vancouver and reserve estimation and mine costing by Independent Mining Consultants of Tucson.
Read Feasibility Study
Read News Release
Carmacks - Exploration (February, 2007)
Assay results complete from 2006 Drilling Program.
Carmacks - Permitting (February, 2007)
Western Copper has received formal notification from the Yukon Environmental and Socioeconomic Assessment Board that the Proposal for the Carmacks Copper Project has been deemed adequate.
Carmacks - Resource Update (January, 2007)
The No. 1 historical resource estimate at the Carmacks Copper Project is now fully compliant un NI 43-101.
Carmacks - Exploration (January, 2007)
Western Copper Confirms Significant New Mineralized Zone at Carmacks.
